Canadian Prairies
The Canadian Prairies is a region of Canada. There are different ways of deciding the parts of Canada that are included in the region. Usually, the Prairie provinces include Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba since they include prairie areas.
The prairie grasslands cover only the southern parts of those provinces, whose geography also includes forests, the Canadian Shield, and the Canadian Interior Plains.
Canadian Prairies Media
Gimli, Manitoba, is on Lake Winnipeg, a very large fresh water lake in the eastern prairies.
The northern short grasslands (WWF terminology) shown here on a map of North America in green, is a type of true prairie (grassland) that occurs in the southern parts of the Prairie Provinces.
Palliser's Triangle, delineating prairie soil types in the Prairie provinces
A canola field in the Qu'Appelle Valley in southern Saskatchewan.